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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK SCHRAUDNER, OE S'r. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGN'OR OE ONE- HALE To TI-IE GUS v. BREOIIT BUTCHERS SUPPLY COMPANY, OE

SAME PLACE.

OVERHEAD-RAlLwAY swl'roH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 564,1 10, dated July 14, 1896.

Application led August 10, 1895. Serial No. 558,864. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, FREDERICK SCHRAUD- NER, a citizen of the United States, and a Y portion of an overhead trackl and my improved switch. Fig. Il is a detail side view of the upper end of the pivoted hanger to which the coniined end of the switch-rail is attached. Fig. III illustrates a horizontal section taken on line III III, Fig. I. Fig. IV illustrates a cross-section of the rope-sheave, at a quarter turn from that shown in Figs. I,

. VI, and VII, through the medium of which above referred to.

the switch is operated. Fig. V is a detail side elevation of the sheave, with a portion of the rope-guard broken away to permit an unobstructed view of the rope-securing clip. Fig. VI is a side elevation of the switch-operating mechanism. Fig. VII is a top view, the section being taken on line VII VII, Fig. VI.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the main rail of the railway, which is supported at its end contiguous to the switch by a hanger 2, and 3 designates the switch-rail, which is supported at one end by a pivotally-attached hanger 4, similar to the hanger employed for the same purpose in my Patent No. 434,840, At the opposite end of the switch-rail are shown two diverging-positioned rails, 1 and 1', supported by hangers 2 and 2, and it is with these rails that thev free end of the switch is designed to be thrown in line so as to complete the track.

The parts thus far described are all shown in my former patent, and no novelty is herein claimed upon them.

5 designates a bracket secured to the han ger 2', and in the outer end of this bracket is an elongated opening 6 that receives a journal rock-shaft 7 that carries a grooved sheave 8, and on the sheave 8 is an operating-rope 9, the two free ends of which are provided with handles 10. The bracket 5 has an upward extension 5ZL over the rock-shaft opening that extends above the top of and over the sheave 8 and prevents the escape of the rope from the groove of the sheave.

' For the purpose of locking or clamping the rope to the sheave in order that the movement of the rope will always be imparted to the sheave, I form an Opening 11 in a flange of the sheave and apply therein a clip 12, the point of which is arranged to be brought into contact with the rope and held by a bolt 13, arranged eccentrically of the sheave and having a collar 12.3ZL and a securing device or nut 131. The outer end of this bolt forms a pin 14, the use of which will be presently described.

15 designates a plate secured to the bracket 5 to inclose the sheave at the opposite side from the bracket, on the inner face of which plate at its outer side is a projection 16 that limits the sidewise movement of the sheave, and on the end of the plate 15 is an arm 17 that performs the same oiiice as the projection. The inner end of the plate 15 is held by the bolt 17a, that passes through the arm 17 on its end.

Pivotally connected to the movable end of the switch-rail is a bar 18 loosely supported and sliding in a block 19, and supported at its outer end by means of a lug 15, located on the inner side of the plate 15. This block is vertically adjustable and is held by a bolt 20 iitting in an elongated opening 21 in the block 19, thereby permitting vertical movement of the block for the purpose of bringing the switch-rail into vertical adjustment with the main rail.

The outer end of the bar 1S is provided with a vertical extension 22, having a slot 23 arranged to receive the pin 14 of the bolt 13 on the sheave 8. the combined bolt and pin 13 its,is an elongated one, for the purpose of permitting lateral adjustment of the pin to bring the switchrail into proper horizontal registration with either main rail of the track. This elongated The opening 8f, in vwhich l opening 8a is shown in vertical position in` Fig. IV and in dotted lines in horizontal position in Fig. VI.

To operate the switch, one of the handles on the rope is grasped, and on drawing upon it the sheave is caused to rotate, and as it does so the pin l-i is moved in the slot of the extension o against the extension, 'and draws or pushes in which movement it bears.

the bar 18 in accordance with the direction i in which the sheave is rotated, and thus the switch-rail is brought into line with the main rail which is desired to complete the track.

I claim as my inventionl. In a switch-operating mechanism, the combination of a movable switch-rail, a bar connected to said switch-rail, an adjustable lblock supporting said bar, a horizontally-adjustable sheave, means for operating said sheave, an adjustable pin carried by said sheave, said pin having engagement with said bar for the purpose of imparting its movement to the suf'itch-rail, substantially as l porting and guiding said bar in a-horizontal line, means for operating the sheave, a bolt secured to the sheave and having apin playing in the slot of the extension for moving the bar with the switch-rail, substantially as described.

3. A switch-operating mechanism comprising a movable switch-rail, a bracket having a vertical elongated opening, a laterally-moving bar having a vertical extension formed with a slot and connected to the switch-rail, a block for supporting and guiding said bar in a horizontal line, a bolt adjustable in the said opening and by which the block is secured, a sheave mounted on the bracket, means for operating'the sheave, a bolt secured to the sheave and having a pin playing in the slot of the extension for moving the bar with the switch-rail.; substantially as described.

4. A switch-operating mechanism comprising a movable switch-rail, a bracket, a laterally-moving bar having a vertical extension formed with a slot and connected tothe switchrail, a grooved sheave formed with a radial opening in a flange thereof, and with aradial opening in the body thereof, an operating-rope located in the groove of the sheave, the clip seated in the flange-opening, having j its point lapping the rope, the bolt having a pin playing in the extension-slot, adjustable in the body-opening, and securing the clip, to the sheave; substantially as described.

E. S. KNIGHT, STANLEY STOVER. 

